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Blansett, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 2. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. It stands on Oliver Branch. The Survey maps it on the Peanut Mountain quadrangle.

Blansett within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Blansett between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,549 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOuachita National ForestBRUSHY HOLLOW
4 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National Forestnot named
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOuachita National ForestDENTON CREEK
22 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism77 acresOuachita National Forest515
24 August 2010Natural7.0 acresOuachita National ForestWEST PITFORK
17 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOuachita National ForestTIN TOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blansett in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBlansett-Numerous trees were blown down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBlansett-A few small trees and large branches were reported down in the Nella area.

Every storm recorded in Scott County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ritz2.7 miles31
Beauchamp2.9 miles20
Shiloh3.0 miles31
Denton3.6 miles31
Nella3.6 miles31
Tintop3.7 miles20
Gate (historical)5.8 miles19
Sensation (historical)6.2 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122568553The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70717. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.